01894cam a2200301 4500 7606 20181127183948.0 970925s1998 inua b s001 0 eng 97040901 0253211778 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253333822 (cloth : alk. paper) 302.23 21 Morse, Margaret. Virtualities : television, media art, and cyberculture / Margaret Morse. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998. xii, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 21 Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index. pt. 1. Virtualities as Fictions of Presence. 1. Virtualities: A Conceptual Framework. 2. The News As Performance: The Image As Event -- pt. 2. Immersion in Image Worlds: Virtuality and Everyday Life. 3. Television Graphics and the Virtual Body: Words on the Move. 4. An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television. 5. What Do Cyborgs Eat? Oral Logic in an Information Society -- pt. 3. Media Art and Virtual Environments. 6. The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-Between: Video Installation Art. 7. Cyberscapes, Control, and Transcendence: The Aesthetics of the Virtual. In Virtualities, Margaret Morse focuses on the interactions that people have with machines and images. Morse contends that such interactions, far from being liberating, actually cloak an impoverished public sphere by idealising impersonal relations. Communication Social aspects. Computers and civilization. Mass media Social aspects. Social interaction. Television broadcasting Social aspects. Virtual reality Social aspects. 6514 6514 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2022-01-12 11564 0 302.23 MOR 30012059 2022-01-12 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN